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Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume 6, Issue 1688, 17 May 1884, Page 2

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.. (UNITED PKESS ASSOCIATION. IMMIGRATION EMIGRATION ■--■•■'RETUBNS.'-. GREAT EIRE AT AUCKLAND; EIRE IT NAPIER. : , POSTPONEMENT OP THE QUEEN'B BIRTHDAY. , .;, „, Friday. A fire brolrj ant at 11.30 last night in the Royal Georgo Hotel, Newmarket, and destroyed, besides the hotel, the shop of Mr Hamilton, baker, and the Police Station,.' The hotel was open at the time of the outbreak, but none. of the inmates appear able to account' ; for ' tlie fire.' Several boarders were: asleep' upstairs, and escaped in • night . clothes. A -man 'name? Corbett was seriously burnt -while rescuing a girl named Agnes' Brown, who wasjtlso injured, The.-hotel belonged to Odium and was leased, to Jagger, brewer, who was insure'd ; ior £BOO in the Norwich Union,' and Odium had a further policy of £2OO in tho same office. The stock and iurniture was'insured by Jagger for £BOO. in the; Northern. The premises of fiamilton)> baker, were two storied, with a-bakeliouse at the rear, and these,,, with, the police station, were the property of F. Q. Clayton and insured by;himforifiOO'in'theSouth British! Hamilton's furniture and stock were uninsured.- Constable Graham was also uninsured, and loses £l6O, .worth of furniture, The stables and offices of Hamraand & Byron were pulled down to stop the spread of the flames, and were insured by that firm on behalf of Clayton for £IOO in the National. Tho total insurances were £2500, damage ££ooo. Napier, Friday.

A six roomed house at Hsvelock was totally destroyed by fire early this morning, It .was insured for £l5O in the National j the furniture being uninsured, '■'"

Christchurch, Friday, .Information was given at the Rakaia police station last night that a man had died suddenly at Angus Murray's farm at Ureal, five other men also being i 11..; tJt is supposed to be a case of poisoning. No further particulars could be obtained last night. Tho police and a medical man have gone up to the station. Wakefield addressed a crowded meeting at the Leeston Town Hall last night. • He claimed ho • had first mado a dead set against further borrowing, and had advocated economy in the public expenditure. He accused the Government;.-of deliberately setting North against South by. tho grain tariff, andblahied them for not coming sooner before the public with their policy. He considered their policy unsatisfactory, and that federation and land - tenure ' were not the questions to bo discussed now. He had a notion of what the Government-, .measure for Civil Service reform was to: Ik and he did not like it. He objeoted tbat it was. simply to deprive succeeding. Governments of patronage after, the" present Government had exercised-it for seven years Their professions of a desiro for economy were evidently insincere, from the fact that ; under the Bankruptcy Act, a'number: of new officials, were, appointed. He' thought tho coming session likely to give greater cause for ahame than the last, which was saying a great deal. The speeches of Sir G. Grey iiot:ih)pii ; Od '(confidence in him as a 'leader'of the'people, and.he was entirely 7 opposed to the principle enunciated by Sir' George of taking tho unearned increment which was nothing else', robbery. He did hot agree-Tvith; Montgomery's taxation of absenteesandlargelandholders, but wished that half' the British peerage would follorthe example :of tho Duke of Manchester' arid'' TJoroV Lyttelton. He would try to get out of the 'presentdifficulty honestly and- wisely, :.and ~he believed there would be plenty of; men of. experience and honesty of purpose, and willing to come forward to restore.the cqlony. Of Sir Julius Yogel he wish to speak with every delicacy. If Sir Julius got into Parliament he was likely to take a prominent part in it. and the first pro-. .posal would be to plunge the colony | further into : debt. '/.'He' hoped this | would not be accepted' by. the people. He 'could quite imagine politicians saying,'"let,ufhia,vV a blooming time; in four years the' Panama Canal will be open and all will go on swimmingly." It was nothing else- but gambling, and he counselled the people to rather bear hard 'times than discount tho future good times which would come eventually.; Sir Julius was entitled to a fair field and no favor. He had always opposed /Sir; Julius: politically, bub was. npt.goingitp beone of those who would hourid Kim. out of the. colony,' He was not going to : propound[any policy,' but intended to identify himself with men. of, moderate ..views. and disinterested motives;-"Ho believed ihere'would be a i»Jfche;House who would take' up the lame position. He did ribt ! intended''to. take; part in. the impending struggle/foroffiee.. : ;i■-..'., A unanimous-:vote of,, thanks was acoorded>him,;i';. ■;■'':: ;} ' '.''''-■' :■■■■ y^,--m :M)KLiNI)/Friday. ' The Gpyehioi has received the fol-

■lowing telegram .from the Secretary of Stat©; for. the; pplonieEi:-" It .is Her Majesty's'wislttliatitho celebration of hoi- - Birthday should ho 'deferred for one .month,; Her Majesty has been pleased to r appoint the ;28th of June for thVlJnited Governor notifies that the levee; 1 has beon postponed in accordance with this request.

Wellington, Friday, ' Russell, departures,. 3, Auckland,, arrivals, 669 departures, 7 393.': Wet' lington, arrivals, 95; departures, 194. Napier, arrivals, 3. droymouth; arrivals, ;4; departures,; 12. Hokitikaj" arrivals, 3. ■ Lytteltohr arrivalsj 19; departures, 82, Tinwu arrivals, 10 ; .departures, 1. , ,Dunedin, arrivals, 228; departures, 3. Invercargill, arrivals, 293 ; departures, 375.; Total arrivals/ 13'24, ; departures, . 1066. Arrivals, 6221r0in the United Kingdom,' and--658 from the Australian Colonies; 35 from Kji, and 12 from South Seas. Departures,' 94 for the United Kingdom; 830 for Australia; 18 for Fiji; 17 for other British ports; and 98for South Seas. Chinese, i arrivals'; 23 departures; The Secretary of Telegraphs has re-' ceived the following message:—London, May, 11th.—The trial of; the Central News Telegraph Co. v. Eastern Telegraph Go. was concluded to-day after nine days sitting.' The Lord Chief Justice summed up'in. the Eastern Telegraph's favor, and put to the jury, the.question did the defendants* of the. Eastern Telegraph Co., Sir James Art' derson and Mr Benjamiii Smitli :(the Co.'s superintendent at Alexandria), divulge the contents of the Burleigh message, containing news of the victory at Tel El Kebir, To this the jury answered "No." This is the verdict in favor of the Eastern Telegraph Co., and is subject to point of law yet to be discussed. , '. ; ■

• Dunedw, Friday. ■ The Ruapehu's passage home was the fastest on record, her actual steaming time being 37 days 20 hours.

Gisbome,; Friday.; The meeting at Ormond last night was about equally divided in favor of Sir Julius Yogel aud the local candidate, ;